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Students from Lakeside School, District 81, in 1918 are pictured from left, front row, Loran Guernsey and Ralph Sheridan; middle row, Frank Ferguson, Chester Ide, Robert Ferguson, Vernon Miell, Leah Ferguson (Sperber), Mable Dickey, Edna Thompson (Ferguson), Ralph Thompson, Art Ferguson and Glee Hecht; and back row, Ray Dickey, Darlow Hecht, Ray Miell, Ora Dickey, Faye Thompson (Guernsey), Marie Miell and Lenore Guernsey (Salvador). Lakeside School was located 5 miles west and 8 miles south of Holyoke and was organized in 1888. The district was annexed to District 12, McKelvey School, in 1950. — Source: Phillips County Museum

Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago — July 3, 2014
    Twenty students in grades 5-7 participated in the June 23-26 Youth Entrepreneurial Camp, where they worked in groups to develop their own businesses that they will operate over the summer. Economic development corporations in Phillips and Sedgwick counties partnered for the four-day camp, with two days held in Julesburg and two days in Holyoke.
    With more than four decades in the hair styling business, Holyoke’s Betty Langley is opting for retirement and has closed Betty’s Beauty Barr.
    Nicholas Ortner was named the 2014-15 Colorado 4-H president at the state 4-H conference June 17-19 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
    
Ten Years Ago — July 2, 2009

    HHS grad Josi Kramer recently created a dress made of gum wrappers for the CSU chapter of Fashion Group International’s Recycled Fashion Show, where she earned runner-up honors.
    Five Holyoke High School students went on a nine-day tour of some of Italy’s and Greece’s most famous tour attractions. Led by teacher Tracy Trumper, the Holyoke group was joined by others from Nebraska and Oklahoma, for a total of 51 on the tour organized by Education First Tours.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago — July 7, 1994
    Holyoke Police Department Sergeant Barry Winckler recently became the first regional trainer for the Colorado Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force.
    Fifteen-year-old Gary McCallum recently had knee surgery at Shriners Hospital after the growth plates in his left knee started developing abnormally over the last couple of years. The outside of his knee started growing faster than the inside, causing it to grow crooked. A device called an Ilizarov was put onto Gary’s leg to straighten the limb.
    Governor Roy Romer issued an executive order June 29 that bans open burning in 63 Colorado counties, including Phillips County.
    
Fifty Years Ago — July 3, 1969
    Five thousand pheasant chicks have been prepared for distribution to participants in the Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program. The Marvin Wilson farm in Haxtun received 22 pheasant chicks; these were the only chicks delivered to Phillips County.
    A time capsule made from a metal shaving stock holder was found by Roy Knight, Holyoke contractor, while tearing out a chimney in a building. Bernard E. Taylor, who began buying cream in this building for the Phillips County Butterfat Association before buying out the association and becoming an independent buyer, placed the time capsule in the chimney while it was being constructed in October 1917.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago — July 6, 1944
    Recently 40 members of Farm Labor Committees from eight counties met in Benkelman, Nebraska, and discussed the “harvest wage” problem. It was recommended that for experienced help, a combine man should be paid $9 a day and a truck driver, scooper, shocking or tractor man be paid $8 a day in northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska for the coming harvest. The wages are to include board. The suggested charge for custom combining was set at $2 per acre and 5¢ per bushel. This is for standing wheat, and the farmer is to take the grain from the combine.
    Some years ago, a quiet day on the Fourth of July was an unheard-of condition, but on July 4, 1944, there were no firecrackers, no shooting or other noisy demonstrations to celebrate the occasion.

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